Show your game prep notes

[SlyFlourish]

I always love to get down into the weeds into how we prep and run our games. So, show your real-world prep notes! No shaming! No criticism! Just us sharing what we put together to run our games.

Here's my one-page prep notes for my game tonight! I have some Dyson maps I'm not showing but these are it. I prep my notes in Obisidian and I have a custom css for the layout when I print to PDF.

 

[Arilyn]

Not going to show mine. They're scribbled notes by hand in a notebook or fancy leather journal I got for Christmas. They are also surrounded by doodles I made while thinking. The doodles have nothing to do with the game.

 

[payn]

I write a lot of journal entries into Foundry for my Traveller game. It's a sandbox so I like having things ready to go when the players get there.

..and yes I rip off images from all over the net for my game (its for me and my mates not profit or paid to run game).

 

[SlyFlourish]

Not going to show mine. They're scribbled notes by hand in a notebook or fancy leather journal I got for Christmas. They are also surrounded by doodles I made while thinking. The doodles have nothing to do with the game.

Now I really want to see them!!

 

[Clint_L]

My “notes” for the next session are upwards of 20 pages, which is typical for big games, and I am jealous and impressed by how efficiently you get it onto one.

 

[Edgar Ironpelt]

You asked for it...
The maps are in Coreldraw X3, and I'm not uploading them.

 

[Edgar Ironpelt]

My “notes” for the next session are upwards of 20 pages, which is typical for big games, and I am jealous and impressed by how efficiently you get it onto one.

Yeah, my notes run long too.

 

[dbm]

I’m a mind-mapper. This is an example of the session prep for an instalment of my Savage Worlds Lost Colony campaign which ran for about a year. There is more detail at the ends of all those branches on the PCs, NPCs, and other sessions, which I have folded away. But for that specific session, all that is folded is the enemy stats.

In some ways prep is easier for me as I am often riffing of published material. But I picked this bit specifically as it was a full session I wrote as an ‘interlude’ between other, plot-relevant sessions.

 

[Zaukrie]

Ok. Here they are:

 

[SlyFlourish]

My “notes” for the next session are upwards of 20 pages, which is typical for big games, and I am jealous and impressed by how efficiently you get it onto one.

How long are your sessions and do you find yourself using all 20 pages? What do they generally look like if you had to write an outline?